South San Antonio Independent School District failed to document and track how it managed its federal funding from 2009 to 2012 and will have to pay the government back nearly $300,000 that appears to have been misspent, district and state officials said.

Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra said Tuesday that he found no indication of criminal wrongdoing in a report the district received on a lengthy state investigation. But, he said, it was nearly impossible to know where all the federal money went or whose fault it was.

Saavedra said he wasn’t shocked by the findings. As interim superintendent a year and a half ago, he had called the district’s finances a mess. The report by the Texas Education Agency, released by the agency in response to an open records request, recognized the corrective actions Saavedra took, including his move to terminate the district’s longtime business manager on his first day as full superintendent.

The district’s board was to receive the report and discuss it at a special meeting tonight. Read the full story at ExpressNews.com or in Wednesday’s Express-News.